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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:45:31 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:46:23 PM   
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1939: Finnish actress Sirkka Sari died when she fell down a chimney into a heating boiler. She had mistaken the chimney for a balcony.


How can you mistake a chimey for a balcony???



Well, she was Finnish.


We should ask Puhis whether both look alike in Finland


If he's actually Finnish, he's too drunk to answer coherently.

Oh and apropos of nothing at all, methinks Walloc might be part Finnish as well...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:46:27 PM   
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1963: Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline, and lit himself on fire, burning himself to death.


One of the most famous pictures/videos in history, I guess...


Yep. Although it does seem to be quite the rage these days in Tibet.

are they still burning themselves in numbers there?
I guess that's considered "old news" in Germany, so we don't hear anything about it any more...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:47:03 PM   
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Mountain-Germans...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:47:42 PM   
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1969; Jan Palach, a Czech student, committed suicide by self-immolation, in Wenceslas Square, Prague, as a political protest against the "demoralization" of Czechoslovakian citizens caused by the occupation by the Soviet Union. Palach was the first of a group of students to set himself on fire.





Yeah, that turned out a to be a great marketing decision by the Kremlin.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:47:57 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:48:37 PM   
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1972: Leslie Harvey, guitarist of Stone the Crows, was electrocuted on stage by a live microphone.






IIRC one of the Metallica guys walked into a firework, didnt die, fortunately.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:48:54 PM   
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Keep your kids away from Twilight!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:49:15 PM   
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Respect!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:49:18 PM   
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1974: Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, drank himself to death with carrot juice.




Beer:1 Carrot Juice: 0

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:49:59 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:50:29 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:50:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		1984: Tommy Cooper, British comedian, died of a heart attack while performing during a live TV broadcast at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. Initially the audience, thinking it was part of the act, continued to laugh as he lay collapsed on the stage. He was then pulled from sight as attempts were made to revive him off stage.


Great show!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:51:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		1984: Jon-Erik Hexum, an American television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun loaded with a single blank cartridge. Hexum was playing Russian Roulette during a break in filming.


Russian Roulette always is a great idea! Especially if some dumbass is playing it with a semi-automatic pistol (as there are videos on the net as well...)

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:51:52 PM   
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Holy ****ing ****!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:52:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		1987: Budd Dwyer, the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, committed suicide during a televised press conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Facing a potential 55-year jail sentence for alleged involvement in a conspiracy, Dwyer shot himself in the head with a revolver.




"Since Dwyer died in office, his widow Joanne was able to collect full survivor benefits, totaling over $1.28 million. A spokesman for Dwyer suggested that he may have committed suicide to preserve the state-provided pension for his family, whose finances had been ruined by legal defense costs."

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:53:13 PM   
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1974: Christine Chubbuck, an American television news reporter, committed suicide during a live broadcast on July 15. Eight minutes into her talk show on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, she shot herself in the head with a revolver.





I hear of the Budd Dwyer thing. And then there was that guy in Poland not too long ago.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:54:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		1987: Franco Brun, a 22-year-old prisoner at Toronto East Detention Centre, in Toronto, Ontario, choked to death after attempting to swallow a Gideon's Bible.


No swallowing bibles!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:54:24 PM   
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1975: Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old from Norfolk, England, died laughing while watching The Goodies. A particular scene had caused Mitchell to laugh nonstop for twenty-five minutes before dying of heart failure.


I guess there can be worse ways to go!


I thought laughter was supposed to extend your life.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:54:37 PM   
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There's only one bad word and that's taxes. If any other word is good enough for sailors; it's good enough for you. - Ron Swanson

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:55:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		1993: Actor Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, was shot and killed by a prop gun during the making of the movie The Crow. The accident happened after a mistake in prop handling procedures: In a prior scene a revolver was fired using a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet, but the primer provided enough force to push the round out of the cartridge into the barrel of the revolver, where it stuck. The gun was then reused to shoot the death scene of Lee's character. This time it was reloaded with a blank cartridge that contained propellant and a primer. When actor Michael Massee fired the gun, the bullet was propelled into Lee.


I rember that happening...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:55:22 PM   
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"Like a boss!"

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There's only one bad word and that's taxes. If any other word is good enough for sailors; it's good enough for you. - Ron Swanson

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:55:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		1993: Michael A. Shingledecker Jr. was killed when he and a friend were struck by a pickup truck while lying flat on the yellow dividing line of a two-lane highway in Polk, Pennsylvania. They were copying a daredevil stunt from the movie The Program. Marco Birkhimer died of a similar accident while performing the same stunt in Route 206 of Bordentown, New Jersey.




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There's only one bad word and that's taxes. If any other word is good enough for sailors; it's good enough for you. - Ron Swanson

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:57:31 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:59:33 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 11:00:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		1995: A 39-year-old man committed suicide in Canberra, Australia by shooting himself three times with a pump action shotgun. The first shot passed through his chest, but missed all of the vital organs. He reloaded and shot away his throat and part of his jaw. Breathing through the throat wound, he again reloaded, held the gun against his chest with his hands and operated the trigger with his toes. This shot entered the thoracic cavity and demolished the heart, killing him.


Impressive stunt!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 11:00:44 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 11:01:43 PM   
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We now are forced by the EU to use energy saving lamps that contain mercury. Thanks EU!

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There's only one bad word and that's taxes. If any other word is good enough for sailors; it's good enough for you. - Ron Swanson

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 11:02:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		1998: Tom and Eileen Lonergan were presumed dead after being stranded after scuba diving with a group of divers off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The group's boat accidentally abandoned them after an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. Their bodies were never recovered.


There was a movie about this incident. Not even bad!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 11:02:48 PM   
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Who volunteers to play them next?

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